Guests

SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE

Alfie Bown is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Royal Holloway University London. He is a founding editor of 1968 Press and his journalism has appeared in Tribune, New Statesman, Paris Review and the Guardian. His other books include The Playstation Dreamworld and Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production.

Teresa Livingstone is a musical comedian and a classy lady, at least she tries to be, despite everything life throws at her as a 40-something Northern Irish woman.One of Northern Ireland’s top comedy acts and a skilled pianist and singer, she recently starred in her own BBC Sounds six-part series Tell Teresa and was previously seen on BBC’s The Blame Game, Soft Border Patrol and Late Licence.

Elliott Morgan is an American stand up comedian, actor, writer, host, producer and YouTube personality. He was a co-host of the YouTube channel SourceFed and is one half of The Fundamentalists.

Barry Taylor is a theologian-philosopher, musician, artist, academic and writer who has spent more than thirty years challenging traditional notions of religion and church and creating alternative communities built on the idea that life is uncertain, the future is unwritten and that none of us has the answer. Barry's work collapses the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, blurs the lines between theism and atheism and raises new questions about life, death and everything in between.

Duke Special is one of Ireland’s most dynamic, musically ambitious & theatrical musicians. With his inimitable style of beautifully bruised romanticism, Duke Special creates a surreal, vaudeville-esque world that is dark while being infused with hope and joy. Best known for his platinum selling album “Songs from the deep forest,” he has also sung with The Muppets, written and performed the music for Deborah Warner’s critically acclaimed production of Brecht’s Mother Courage at London’s National Theatre, presented a documentary on Ruby Murry and created music for the New York MET's exhibition on the photographers Stieglitz, Steichen, and Strand (which he also performed there).

Fringe Programme

This year’s Wake festival is offering four fringe events. If you are a patron of mine at Flame level or above, you can attend these events for free. Just message me on the Patreon app so that I can add you to the guest list.

MONDAY 3RD

7PM | ‘THE PROFANE TEMPLE’ LAUNCH WITH EVERYDAY ANALYSIS AND DUKE SPECIAL | BLACK BOX

This event will mark the launch of Everyday Analysis’ new pamphlet, which is an essay written by Peter Rollins on the Church of the Contradiction. Peter will be chatting with Everyday Analysis founder Alfie Bown. The launch will be followed by an intimate gig with one of N.Ireland’s most treasured musical talents, the one and only, Duke Special. This will all happen in the Green Room of the Black Box.

TUESDAY 4TH

7PM | DOCTORED | ELLIOTT MORGAN | THE CRAWFORDSBURN INN

Elliott will be doing a stand up set that will touch on some of the difficulties he has faced in the last couple of years and will explore themes related to life, death and the absurdity of existence. This will take place in the Gallery of The Crawfordsburn Inn.

WEDENSDAY 5TH

7:30PM | THE SECRET PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY | black box

Originally created by Barry Taylor and run for many years in LA, TSP mixes music, art and spoken word to explore a theme. The topic for this event is Comedy. It will be hosted by a special, secret guest and include music from Teresa Livingson, comedy from Elliott Morgan and a conversation between Barry Taylor and Alfie Bown.

THURSDAY 6TH

7PM | THE FUNDAMENTALISTS LIVE PODCAST | TBC

This will be a live recording of The Fundamentalists podcast where we delve into the theme of contradiction.